This is a very specialized question, but I figured I would give it a shot.

We do medical billing, and we use a few services for Medicare Eligibility verification. We use them to make sure patients have coverage before shipping product. We currently use Office.emdeon.com, Zirmed.com, and Passport health. These are all Browser based services where we enter the patients information and in return we get a printable report.

We could save alot of time by using a Web Service or API to push over the information and and electronically return status within our order processing software. Does anybody know of a company that offers this? Emdeon offers an appliance that we can use for this, but we're not sure that's the best bet.

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I would need to know little bit more about your order processing software. Either way it appears that you would need to use some type of interface and or vendor appliance since you already use a third-party processing software. We are currently using Emdeon services and as we rapidly approach stage 2 meaningful use and 5010 implementation is behind us, everything finally running without a hitch. And according to our billing department there is a backdoor way to verify payments before actually receiving formal notification from Emdeon